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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

11 months

@malpani Humbly disagree Dr. Malpani. A number of notch institution (IITs, IIMs, NITs) are not for privileged few. Anyone who has ability to crack exam can go and study and atmo inside is absolutely equal (no difference based on religion, caste or economic standards).

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This is how my almamater, IIT Bombay @iitbombay conducted its convocation, what coordination & execution. My heart goes for class of 2019 but this is great guys @singh_sequoia @Zishaan @hsgrover @righthalf @IITBAA1 @MohapatraHemant @NandanNilekani @bhash @Goyal4Gagan @farooqadam

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@ipo_mantra Lived at these income levels for 4 years and it was good enough. Rent - 40K (No EMI, did. Not buy home) School fees - 10K Movies - 3K Eat out - 5K Groceries - 25K Petrol - 5K Car maintenance - 1K Car insurance - 1K ========== 10.8 Lac 80 C - 1.5 Lac Tax - 70K Holiday - 50K

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@dkagarwal

3 years

Given someone commented a few days back that PAYTM being faster than GPAY/PhonePE tweets may be fake or orchestred by company, I tried to test how fast PayTM is & it took just 1.8 sec & it felt incredibly fast.. Overall great experience @vijayshekhar

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@dkagarwal

18 days

@VaibhavSisinty Not like to like numbers. There it was views, here unique concurrent logins

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@dkagarwal

5 months

@anuragsingh_as Anurag, a valid analysis but it misses 3 critical points 1. It misses is earning growth which will be very low for US Banks vs Indian banks as nominal growth rate in India vs US has at least gap of ~8% 2. Penetration of banking services is low in India vs US 3. Per capital

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@chandrarsrikant If that anchor affects a billion dollar outcome for that conglomerate than yes..

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@dkagarwal

2 years

@ankit_singh08 @Uppolice @dgpup @kanpurnagarpol @dcpskanpur @adgzonekanpur This is not right at all. Our police forces (especially at lower level) sometimes work all 7 days or sometimes long hours. Taking a break at work should. not be frowned upon

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

@Ravisutanjani True. Govt should not deduct income tax but only levy GST & Employee should also get GST benefits as they are earning money via hard earned labour and then GST should be offset on everything a person paying GST on.

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@dkagarwal

9 days

So proud to be an #Ixigo investor today! 🎉🚀 Ixigo has officially debuted on the stock markets. And, I’m beyond thrilled to have witnessed this historic event firsthand, and even more honoured to have shared a moment with the visionary founders- @alokebajpai & @rajnishkumar .

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@dkagarwal

13 days

@NavaniRajan @BCCI @thebharatarmy Rajan, why would someone advertise this?

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@dkagarwal

2 years

@drishtiispeaks Your 1st line is a clickbait which means chasing followers still so everyone loves to become popular

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@dkagarwal

7 months

@ImRo45 Buddy, you are going to win it this time and you are leading from the front as well as from the back. One final frontier to be won

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@dkagarwal

3 years

@ovshake42 I think BCCI assumed NZ & Ind won't reach to semis

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@dkagarwal

1 year

@Ravisutanjani No Ravi, read the report & see their previous short. They have a great track record of bringing companies down.

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@dkagarwal

13 days

@udaykotak Uday Kotak Sir, huge respect for you Sir but it would be harsh to term converting debt in equity as 'create money out of thin air', and what's happening here is definitely a lot better than Reliance Power (Kotak Mahindra was a Banker to that IPO). Not sure if I should debate

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

8 months

@eOrganiser This is so dangerous. Which cinema is this?

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@karan_1302 Thanks. Next set of predictions 1. RR vs GT (RR will win) 2. RCB vs LSG (RCB will win) 3. GT vs RCB (RCB will win) 4. RR vs RCB (RCB will win)

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

7 months

@DPrasanthNair True. Simple solution, I carry Rs 10/15 sachet of Girnar Tea, same one they mix. I ask for hot water which they are obliged to give and mix it right in front of their eyes. In next flight, I am planning to take more and distribute free as a sign of protest @IndiGo6E

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@dkagarwal

5 months

@SachinSanghe I am not against our dear PM and myself a supporter of his development work but this is case of wrong attribution as passport office's efficiency is thanks to TCS which now manages passport office and this has been as efficient since 2010-12, a lot of people in family for then as

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@dkagarwal

19 days

@_anujsinghal Looks like retail is smarter than institutions

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

Here is the champion girl @anuradha_mb (finished 10K run in 70 minutes) & proud husband of champion girl (finished 10K in 75 minutes).

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 months

@ashajadeja325 Asha, while it's true @amitabhk87 may not have written a line of code but India Govt Tech stack is world class and just handling billions of volume of UPI transaction but world is adopted. Architect of this is our own @NandanNilekani and bunch of warriors. It is true market

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@dkagarwal

2 years

@raysubrata @GabbbarSingh 1/2 disagree. I think it comes via an unconscious culture transfer where "getting things done via shortcuts is considered cool". At home it happens from elders-youngers, college/school from seniors/juniors & even peers. I think its part of a deep rooted psyche of Indian society

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

6 months

@abhnv_r11 @pacificleo Did you speak to maintenance secy or would you be open to become maintenance secy, Main Co or G Sec to fix this and all such problems?

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 years

One of IIT Bombay alum needs urgent help. I think IITBAA is also trying to help, please help amplify this @pratikpoddar @malpani @kunalb11 @NandanNilekani @singh_sequoia @MohapatraHemant @ankoors

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 months

Thanks to a dear friend, enjoying Masala chai in Singapore and it was awesome.. 7 meetings today and 8 meetings tomorrow and even on Wednesday (which is a public holiday), we got 5 meetings. Loving every bit of trip as well as building Dexter Capital (IB, $3-100MM deals) ,

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

7 months

@KapilSharmaK9 The way @IndiGo6E very harshly treats its passengers for even for a few minutes late. It should lay a penalty for wasting passengers time.

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@dkagarwal

1 year

Bloody brilliant. @AshwiniVaishnaw is simply brilliant. Cutting ribbons in one thing (which all politicians have done till date) but sitting in the coach to test for collision is something else..

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Railway minister in 1 loco Railway chairman board in another Both going head to head to test kavach Aiise minister chahiye 🇮🇳 ko 🙂 leading from front

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1 year

@hvgoenka No sir, Kohli has not hit a double century in ODI yet

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@dkagarwal

7 months

@RURALINDIA This is an utter lie. I was at stadium and water was free. One just had to go and walk up to water counter

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@dkagarwal

5 months

@chiragbarjatyaa Yes, that's way to build business also savings are reinvested to build Moat. Frugal, profitable businesses run by Marwadis

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@dkagarwal

3 years

@deepakabbot Founders themselves (& Investors as well) are to blame for employees not putting faith in ESOPs, year on year, promoters/founders have "looted" early employees at the name of ESOP

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@dkagarwal

2 years

@LiveLawIndia How can we not make these class action suit in India? That is one award applies to all customers

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@dkagarwal

2 years

Biggest disservice an Industry leader can do to it's peers is to list early and spoil sector sentiments. CarTrade is valued now at less than USD 400 MM & thus would make it hard for other cos in sector to raise capital

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@dkagarwal

2 years

1/n So after watching the premier of TVF Pitchers 2 along with a lot of entrepreneurs & VC friends @_arpitmehta @arpiit , cast of pitchers, @ZEE5India & @ArunabhKumar himself, I came back & watched the remaining 3 episodes.. A quick thread on what to expect (without spoilers)

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 years

@championswimmer Yes, I have seen it. PAYTM seems genuinely fast but I also remember hearing @vijayshekhar telling in a private event (I think it was IDG event) how he in 2010 bought all spots in planes going to China and got PAYTM ads placed to influence Jack Ma & it worked like a beauty

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

7 months

@aviralbhat Agree, may be to 3

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

I haven't failed to get a response from all top builders whether its Ranjan Pai, Nandan Nilekani, Kunal Shah..True builders tend to respond, even if it is a few words..

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Emailed Sam Altman inviting him on the pod And the below was his response Just glad that I got a response from him Anything’s a win honestly

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3 months

@NileshShah68 Read on Reddit "In 1990, the value of the land occupied by the Imperial Palace exceeded the real estate value of the entire state of California. Nothing close to that disparity exists today." Emerging markets or developed market go through bubbles, for businesses (or stocks)

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

4 years

@whiteHatSnr This is the most disgusting thing I saw in my career in entrepreneur eco-system in last 12 years @BYJUS @whitehatjunior so big corporates are trying to take down a person who would speak against them

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@ParikPatelCFA Were you serious when you posted this?

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 months

Voted for the largest democracy in the world. Long live India & long live democracy. Also won a T-shirt and note pad in lucky draw being the 1st 50 voters at out booth. @anuradha_mb

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@dkagarwal

3 months

@VikasKA01 Who was the lawyer who got schooled by CBI?

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@dkagarwal

2 years

@redditindia @zomato @ZomatoProHelp @zomatocare This is cheating & quite unethical on part or Zomato. I am a pro user too and not sure have been subject to cheating. @deepigoyal deepi these needs to be fixed

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

8 months

@gurkiratsgill What Rohit is doing is actually great as it takes away pressure from batsmen to come. He should continue doing that. Remember Jaysurya was not in top 15 () run scorer for Sri Lanka yet he won men of the series for SL for his ability to set up wins for

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@dkagarwal

1 year

@aviralbhat Both salaries are true only for the top 2-5% of folks & not for all teachers.. Though, agree multiple would still be minimum 5x. Reason is supply-demand & ability to correlate outcome/performance with efforts with most Institutes take student feedback to measure JEE teachers perf

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@raysubrata @GabbbarSingh 2/2 examples are 1. Jumping red light 2. Getting off the train before the station 3. Getting up in a plane as soon as the plane stops 4. Breaking queues 5. Using bribe/approach for any kind of Govt works

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

9 months

1. Voters should download "Know Your Candidate" app to know about respective candidates 2. Every candidate with criminal backyard needs to publish thrice in news paper 3. Every political party need to provide justifications for selecting candidates with criminal backgrounds If

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

11 months

@rishabhbansal97 What happened? I think one thing we all can try to do is learn a little bit of Kannada. The inclusiveness should be from both side.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 years

@AskAnshul Damn, what this guy is talking about? He is talking about Khalistani movement and separate land and all. It seems farmers are just a front and more vicious things are being planned

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

8 months

@FarziCricketer Hence proved WRONG

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@anmolm_ 1. Titan Capital 2. Better Capital 3. Dexter Angels 4. Special Invest 5. WEH Ventures 6. Accel Atoms 7. Sequoia Surge 8. KAE Capital 9. India Quotient 10. Sparrow Venture

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

23 days

NDA may make a Govt but unlikely to cross 320 but India block may cross 200 which is basically means

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

Look Ma, my comment has become an ET headline have been quoted multiple times in the past but a comment becoming "ET headline" is 1st. @DexterAngels @Dexter_Capital @anuradha_mb @EconomicTimes 'Twitter stint shows Agrawal’s career just getting started’

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 years

Super proud @anuradha_mb and entire @multibhashi1 team. You guys are an inspiration. Govt's initiative "Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat" & "Bhasha Sangam" is powered by Multibhashi team. @malpani @Tush_Ag @DexterAngels @Dexter_Capital @ankitsaraf99

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

8 months

Just now had a very sweet experience involving one of our portfolio co and founder. Here goes the story. I was speaking to a lawyer connected by one of the other portfolio founder Anuj Parekh from Healthysure. I was quizzing the lawyer about her background and then I asked how

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

This is deception and not disruption. @deepigoyal @zomato should not resort to these practices, it is better to charge transparently than resort to these practices.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 years

Dmart Vs Big bazaar.. A key message to all founders who believe in "Go Big to Go Home", " Fail Fast".. sometime age old wisdom, perfecting the business model and being patient wins

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

8 months

How can one lose weight especially if you have in-laws from Jaipur?

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

A powerful argument by @vijayprashad () against years of exploitation/colonialism that the developed world did against developing countries. Must listen for sheer beauty of powerful oratory

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@darpan_sakshi @iuditg @gauravmunjal 1000 people in one go. You mean someone was waiting for "shub muhurt" In Navaratri? Not against firing or mass firing but no point defending & strictly strictly against making it sound like all fired people were underperformer.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@khemaridh False.. $5MM incl. home equity won't be sufficient to live a good life style.. If you home is $1MM then remaining $4M even if it generates 10% ROI, it will generate just $40K which may not be enough to live a good life style

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

9 months

With one of my favourite stars & India's star bowler @harbhajan_singh yesterday at a party of a family friend.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

@RagingVentures 1/2 this account is followed by 30K folks (not sure how many when thread was published). The analysis a month back was plain & simple but even the smartest of VCs did not see it & now only option is to get a buyer or fresh equity injection or FED secures large part of deposits

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

10 months

@fpjindia @AbhitashS Life seems cheap in India, builder should be put behind bars

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

4 months

#DealUpdate : Being a part of Frubon’s 3 funding rounds has been such a delight. And the relationship is not that of an advisor and client alone. We are also an investor. Here are the three reasons why. — One. Rahul Verma was my senior at IIT Bombay, and we grew into close

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

6 months

@anmolm_ In 10-15 years, Bangalore may meet fate of Kolkata

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

4 years

@loganbartlett The biggest IRONY VCs have They love capex light businesses, but capital is raw material They love non linear scale, but scaling a VC fund is hard They love great teams, but find retaining great teams hard They love moat, but super hard to create moat @akm1410 @koolhead17

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

@adadithya Never understood these bragging tags whether it's a blue tick or IIT, IIM, ISB or Ivy League.. @kunalb11 rightly theorized India is a status driven society & status sells well

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 months

In the words of buffett: stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. We are reminded of this quote as HDFC delivered strong preliminary results with deposit growth returning to normal.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 months

@AngadDaryani Integrity is hard and it's even harder to find in as people become more intelligent

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@banglani Yes, these unfortunately exist... There are several modus operandi of corporate fraud that exists.. 1. Taking company's asset away & forming a new co 2. Over-invoicing 3. Circular transactions in Tech cos 4. Inflating Capex

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 years

@guruchahal We shouldn't appreciate this machosim. It is better that Founders don't do this double shift & take care of their health, family and mental health..

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 months

#InvestmentUpdate : He lost his grandfather due to the unavailability of an ambulance. And this hit him so hard on the personal end, that he ended up embarking on a mission. . Joining hands with Pranav, Ravjot co-founded @medulance in 2017. Fast forward to 2024, and we at

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

15 days

So @ixigo , a company where we ( @jhawarshubham1 ) are shareholders and we absolutely love gets a huge love from the market. 98.34x subscription overall with ~55x from retail This is mind boggling subscription and best amongst all tech cos I believe IPO Subscription stats of

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Ixigo’s IPO opens on June 10th. As long term backers of the business, here is what we are most excited about. @dkagarwal @hithisisbharath @PragmatiKStance

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@dkagarwal

1 year

@rajatgarg79 True.. Glad someone said it. Also VCs who ask 'low founder salary' in name of skin in the game should ask themselves do they waive mgmt fee, plus office, plus stay when their funds are underperforming & delivery sub par returns

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

7 months

Chak De, India ! Going to the Motera stadium to root for India to bring home the third World Cup 🏆.. We are in G block if anyone is in same block please ping on WhatsApp.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

6 months

@ganeshb78 2+2 = 4 2*2 = 4 3 + 1.5 = 4.5 3 * 1.5 = 4.5 4 + 1.33 = 5.33 4*1.333 = 5.33 6 + 1.2 = 7.2 6*1.2 = 7.2

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@dkagarwal

1 year

@ravihanda In India, no one wants to pay a professional advice or skill. Biggest peev point is when people expect one to provide free service for professional advice/skill

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

Watching Freakins pitch at Sharktank @sharktankindia and glad founder, Puneet mentioned during pitch that they hired @Dexter_Capital for fund raise & hope Dexter delivers on founders expectations

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 months

I've been meeting several founders every day for almost 4,000 days now. In 2013, when I founded @Dexter_Capital with @anuradha_mb , we had no idea how tough or easy it was really going to be. All we knew was, we had each other to fall back on if things ever got overwhelming. .

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

To all Indian techies in the US, please don't stay there, come back & build in India, for India. Pls tag/retweet if anyone is thinking about it, I would be happy to help in my personal/professional capacity (connects, advice, investments whatever I can do) @narendramodi @PMOIndia

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

6 months

This person took pain to inform me personally, even when he had informed broader team. The person is a celebrated entrepreneur, been at 10+ years and build a massive organization. Every time these thing happens, respect increases massively. Unfortunately, ghosting, not

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 years

@rahulrmv Paper >>> Technology.. Tip for Uber..Offer Instruction set post cards in cabs for users to take home.. My Dad took a lot of time to adjust smart phone from feature phone. Biggest fear if something wrong will happen..

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@sajithpai 1/n strongly disagree with this entire narrative on i-bankers or negativity signalling if a deal is represented via an I banker. It squarely depends upon the quality of i-banking firm or partner you work with & how committed they are with you while working.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

@BahlKanan Source of this information?

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@Rahul_J_Mathur & yet every VC is calling it winter.. A narrative to ensure valuation expected by entrepreneurs becomes more rational

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

3 months

Being exclusive advisors for DeHaat’s Series A to E fundraises taught me one key thing. The future of feeding India lies in much more than just data and drones. . Agritech startups focused on precision farming and satellite imagery get the headlines. But the real impact lies

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 year

What the heck? Did the bank do any diligence? This fraud is next level.. Time of all investors to ensure that they do diligence properly..

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

1 month

Yipeeee, my nephew Tanay scored 496/500 in X CBSE Board.. Super happy for him.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@roshanpateI Would it not be 365 x 100 = 3,65,00 or 36.5K or 0.0365 MM?

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

9 months

@aroonpurie Principles and your concerns be damned. I will sell to my viewers what they want to buy

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

23 days

@AdvAshutoshBJP All those who invested in Ayodhya real estate are the biggest losers

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

Our portfolio co, Multibhashi's video was played at IIM Bangalore. @multibhashi1 @anuradha_mb @DexterAngels @malpani @iamsiddshah

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dkagarwal

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3 months

@Iamsamirarora What if TATA's knew? As a management they would know how is quarter faring for themselves.. If a management/promoter know of bad news but decides to sell, would it come in trading on material non public information and thus insider trading @SEBI_India

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

5 years

At IIT Bombay Global Conclave in Jaipur along with Ashish Chauhan, an IITB alumnus @iitbaa @iitbombay @Dexter_Capital @ashishchauhan @BSEIndia @aubankindia @VivekLodha5

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 years

@ZeeNewsEnglish Kya baat hain? Hume garv hain apne Netao par.

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dkagarwal

@dkagarwal

2 months

Inviting all founders, angels, VCs and other private market participants invested in India’s growth story 🇮🇳🚀 Indian private market is not a lot of people. It’s a relatively small family of us, some competing and some collaborating. But, in the end, there is one common thread

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